What Ifs, and Locos that never were.

Felt like drawing something this morning...



Lightweight Mogul: standard 10 boiler on 4575 chassis. Sort of a GWR equivalent of the Ivatt Mogul. Hopefully lower axle weight than a 2251.

 

Ha ha. Yes. It does!

 

Depends whether it would have had more adhesion weight or just more power. A 2-10-0 chassis under an MN boiler, or even a WC/BB boiler, might have been able to put the power down. Now that's a photoshop picture I'd like to see...

 

And then, of course, there's always Norm Hodges version of a Cathedral!

 

Didn't Swindon want another batch of 28xx 2-8-0s in about 1953/4 ish and BR blocked the request, allocating some 9Fs instead?

 

what if jarvis had designed the standards? a 2-8-2 britainia with a bulleid boiler no 9f needed

 

There are I believe two 9Fs still in ex-scrapyard condition. Would anyone care to cannibalise one of those and produce a 2-8-2? A 5m wheelbase with no flangeless wheels and around a 17 tonne axle load would go anywhere. You wouldn't get the Bulleid boiler though.

 

249 Squadron?

 

Shhh! You'll have certain people jumping up and down in anticipation with that sort of careless talk...



Tom

 

36001 'Supreme Leader'
36002 ' Our Glorious Leader'
36003 'Take Me To Your Leader'
36004 'Follow My Leader"

 

Shouldn't 36003 have a small plate underneath with 'And ask what the chuff were you on?

 

36005 'Lovely Bleeder'. Ooops! That should read "36005 'Beloved Leader'".

 

Chuffing Bleeder maybe! Certainly the firemans use of the English language would be rather strong!

 

36005 " Southern leader"
36006 Western leader " ( the one with the copper capped stovepipe) and brass valve cover)
36007 "Eastern leader"

 

"36006 Western leader " ( the one with the copper capped stovepipe) and brass valve cover)"

Do you not mean the one with the ridiculous hairdo...???

 

Not so much a hair do as a hair don't ...

Tom

 

36007 Eastern Lender perhaps as a thank you for those lovely V2s sent to replace... Er..help out the Merchant's?

 

As yet another aside, I read an article in Heritage Railway magazine about F.W.Hawkesworth and, what he failed to pick up on, was that Swindon was struggling, in the early '50's with the increased demand for Heavy, Powerful Express's. In other words, he should have been building more Kings. He would have been aware that upgrading of the track meant that Kings would have been able to reach many more parts of the GWR than before.

 

To be fair to him didn't he have an idea for a 4-6-2, the so called 'Cathedral'?